Edo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, in Benin, donated two sets of wheel chairs, cash and two bags of rice to a 34-year-old widow and mother of one, Mrs. Juliet Oni.
Presenting the items, which included N100, 000 cash to Oni, a former student of Business Administration, at the University of Benin, Edo PDP chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, called on government and other individuals to come to the aid of the less privileged in society.
Orbih, who lamented the lack of opportunities for the likes of Oni, charged commercial banks to avail the underprivileged, of low interest loans, for them to engage in income generating ventures.
He said: "In our effort to create a situation where she can support herself and her child, we have supported her to set up recharge card sales outlet, but in doing so, the challenges of movement have constituted another issue.
"From what we gathered, this is the first time she is coming out for a long time and has developed wounds because of staying in a particular place for long time, and in this regard we have engaged the services of a doctor to help take care of that. To boost her sale too, we are supporting her with N100, 000, but more importantly, our role here today is tocall attention to her plight.
"We call on government and well-meaning individuals who are ready to serve humanity to come to her aid." We also know that government cannot take care of every responsibility, but we know that government has the overall responsibility to cater to its people.
We also call on banks to relax their interest rates so that people like her can get better opportunity to do business.
Supported by her eight-year old daughter, Osa, an elated Oni, who said her husband died in 2009, described the gesture as act of God.
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